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Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8

By : David R Heffelfinger
5 (1)
Book Image

Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8

5 (1)
By: David R Heffelfinger

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using RichFaces components in our JSF applications


The third JSF component library we can select when starting a new Java web application in NetBeans is RichFaces. NetBeans does not bundle the RichFaces JAR files out of the box; therefore, like with ICEfaces, we need to download the RichFaces libraries and create a NetBeans library from them.

The latest stable version of RichFaces can be downloaded from http://www.jboss.org/richfaces/download/stable.html.

We need to click on the Download link on the RichFaces final distribution (ZIP) row to get the latest version of RichFaces. Once we extract the ZIP file, the files we need to add to the NetBeans library will have names similar to the following (exact name will vary depending on the RichFaces version):

  • richfaces-components-a4j-4.5.1.Final.jar

  • richfaces-components-rich-4.5.1.Final.jar

  • richfaces-core-4.5.1.Final.jar

  • RichFaces also has some external dependencies that can be found under the lib directory of the extracted ZIP file (exact names...